Tag: Safety

This article appeared back in March... March of 2013... as in this year: "Windsor Chrysler workers reduce waste to be world class." I mean,...

Listen My guest for podcast #175 is Mike Taubitz of the firm Sustainable Lean and FDR Safety. Mike is a retired GM employee (including a stint...

Following up on my recent post on the tour of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in San Antonio, here are some pictures...

Don't forget my reader survey - share your feedback and have a chance at some great prizes. In November, I blogged about a panel at...

Here is a commentary that was written by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center: "The Lean Approach to Health...

Listen A returning guest for episode #159 is John Toussaint, MD, the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and the author of the...

Mark's note: Today kicks off my vacation and a stretch of guest posts that will run in this spot through October 12 (with the...

I didn't have a post yesterday because it was the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. While I'm not a "worker," in the...

Thanks to Healthcare Finance News for interviewing me for this piece they ran this week: "7 ways lean healthcare management reduces cost." As I think...

Did you hear about the fireworks mishap in San Diego on the 4th? Instead of a planned 20-minute show, there was a "glitch" that...

I went through our new book  Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book... We have, by my count, 124 examples from...

After a week of serious topics and sometimes pointed discussion, let's end with a funny sign... well wait, there's a serious story behind this...